English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 15th January 2016

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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Here I am sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 15th January 2016. Happy Reading :)

Topic 1 : "Return of terror in Indonesia"

• Witnessed - to ​see something ​happen (Here : experienced)
• Campaign - a series of military operations intended to achieve a goal
• Counter - to ​react to something with an ​opposing ​opinion or ​action
• Strategy - a ​detailed ​plan for ​achieving ​success in ​situations such as ​war
• Break up - coming to an end of something
• Extremists - people who have extreme (illegal / violent) political or religious views
• Tide - increase in a ​particular ​type of ​behaviour
• Assault - a ​violent ​attack
• Rekindled - to make someone have a ​feeling that they had in the past (here : fear)
• Regrouping - to form into a group again
• Blamed - declared that somebody or something is responsible for a fault or wrong
• Apparent - clearly visible or understood
  
• Downtown - at the central ​part of a ​city
• Outlets - a ​shop that is one of many ​owned by a ​particular ​company and that ​sells the ​goods that the ​company has ​produced
• Evident - clearly seen or understood
• Inflict - to ​force someone to ​experience something very ​unpleasant
• Hotspot - a very popular or active place
• Halted -  to ​stop doing something or ​happening
• Shootout - a ​fight in which two ​people or two ​groups of ​people ​shoot at each other with ​guns
• Stepped up - to increase
• In the wake of something - alerted after something happened
• Radicalised  - to change a person or group's opinions in a negative way
• Pose - to ​cause problem / difficulty
• Reinforce - strengthen or support something
• Massive - large and heavy
• Crackdown - to ​start ​dealing with ​bad or ​illegal ​behaviour in a more ​painful way
• High-stakes - a ​situation that has a lot of ​risk
• Rejuvenating - make something look or feel better
• Portray - to ​represent something in a ​specific manner (here : peaceful)
• Inroads - attacks

Topic 2 :"Stagflation risk ahead"

• Stagflation - an economic situation in which prices of goods and services continually increase, many people do not have jobs, and businesses are not very successful
• Contraction - the process of becoming smaller
• Set alarm bells ringing - an ​occasion when you ​realize that something is ​wrong
• Slump - to ​fall ​suddenly (prices / sales etc)
• Magnitude - the ​large ​size or ​importance of something
• Decline - decrease
• Proxy - the authority to represent someone else
• Consensus - a general agreement
• Bright spot - something that is good when everything else seems bad
• Precariously - something done in an uncertain manner
• Key drivers - factors that influences
• Becalmed - unable to move because of lack of something
• Roiled - disturbed
• Sapped - to make someone ​weaker
• Threatened - to be ​likely to ​cause ​harm or ​damage to something or someone
• Prospect - the possibility of some future event occurring
• Sustained - continuing for an extended period or without interruption
• Intervention - to ​intentionally ​become ​involved in a ​difficult ​situation in ​order to ​improve it or ​prevent it from getting ​worse
• Faltering - losing strength
• Mooted - suggested
• Free fall - the ​process of ​losing ​value or ​strength ​quickly and ​continuously
• Succour - assistance
• Outlook - a view
• Hardly - almost not
• Plateau - a ​period during which there are no ​large ​changes

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